We have a judgement against us from a Credit Card Company isssued July 2007. The amount of the judgement was $10,500, plus cost and 8% interest until debt was paid. Long story but we used the card to pay for medical cost not covered by insurance for our son who had two surgeries. Today, I received a letter from the same court that issued the judgement that our bank account was going to be garnished. When I checked the bank balance online, they had already taken $8,000. So, no warning. My question is, can the Creditor come back into the account to collect the remaining balance owed, roughly $3 to 4thousand? Or is it a one time garnishment? This has completely wiped us out and I now have to notify those that I have written checks to that they are going to bounce.
Thank you to anyone who can answer this for me.

Yes they can come after you again. Depending on your location, any monies deposited may be automatically garnished. In some places they will have to file a new writ of execution, but they can do so until the debt is paid.

Depending on the wording to the garnishment and now much it was for.
I don't understand why it was not frozen for the entire amount.

The judgment was for " the amount of $10, 657.88, with statutory interest at the rate of 8% from the date of judgement, cost of this action "

We had $8,400.00 in our account when they went into it and they took $8000 of that. The order says it can take money in in excess of four hundred dollars from the account.
Which means, they had to leave the 400 in there.

I live in the state of Ohio, so maybe that is the law here??

Yep, anytime the money in there goes over 400 they will take the money most likely, but they can come back when they want

OK, I got to ask, if you had 8000 in the bank why did you not settle with them, on a 10,000 medical debt, you can almost always settle for 5000 to 6000 in a settlement

Thank you for your replies. My husband is self employed and our bank account typically does not have a balance that high. The reason that money was in there is because a long time client finally paid his bill that he had owed to us accumulating for a year. The check literally just went in and cleared. At the time of the judgement, we tried to make payments. They wanted a lump sum of $7,500 and we simply did not have it. They put a lien on our home and still would not accept payments from us. I am behind on all of our bills except for the mortgage and utilities. I was planning to pay on all of debts with the money from our client, buying groceries for my kids, etc...
I appreciate everyone's help.